Example sentences of "but also [verb] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He obliged Oswiu not only to give his son , Ecgfrith , aged 10 , as a hostage — Penda sending the boy into the keeping of his queen , Cynewise , in Mercia ( HE III , 24 ) — but also to part with great treasure to Penda and his allies ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
2 | Nien held talks with his Chinese counterpart , Xu Dunxin , but also met with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , Premier Li Peng and Chinese Communist Party general secretary Jiang Zemin . |
3 | This , then , is life : innately complex organisms , cocooned upon a much-favoured planet , competing with each other for survival , but also co-operating with each other to their mutual benefit . |
4 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
5 | At midlife many people are not only facing the death of parents but also coping with difficult teenagers . |